James 2:4

Partiality Forbidden

³ And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet; ⁴ Is there not a division in your minds? have you not become judges with evil thoughts? ⁵ Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?

Little Faith

John 7:24

Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

Job 21:27

See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

Job 34:19

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.

Psalm 58:1

Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?

Psalm 109:31

For he is ever at the right hand of the poor, to take him out of the hands of those who go after his soul.

Malachi 2:9

And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

Matthew 7:1-5

Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.

James 1:1-27

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, sends words of love to the twelve tribes of the Jews living in all parts of the earth.

James 4:11

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.